I mean, honestly, if I was going to be Superman for a day and I didn't want to cause an international incident or like...kill some people, I would just fly around really fast and look at things with my super vision too.
I don’t think I’m enjoying anything about All-Star Superman, actually
I don’t like these versions of these characters, I’m kinda hating the stories these issues tell (Lois can be Superman for a day! She just sorta walks around watching things happen for it!), and I’m not engaged by the overarching story
I'm sorry it's not working for you! It's one of my favorite comics, and it's made me emotional in multiple points in multiple different ways, so I'm especially bummed it's causing negative feelings for you.
All star superman has the bit with the prison riot, where a Clark Kent interviewing Lex keeps stepping in to save him from the riot when Lex looks away. It’s easily my favourite superman story.
I can't find it now but one of the best Quietly sequences is a four panel scene of Batman (Dick Grayson) and Robin (Damian) fighting some crooks with a garbage can. Except... he draws the moments between the punches and actiony bits. The action is all implied by where the characters are in the scene. It's very simple, nothing complicated. The bread and butter of superhero comics but it is done really well.
I think this is the one you're talking about:
While looking for that one, I also found these ones, which I think come from the same fight sequence:
I really love the sequence in the first scan that zooms in on Damian's eyes. In the second scan, I love the panels where Dick is flipping over the table - the soaring bat silhouette, the cape folding around his body and then unfurling when he lands. That feels like a more acrobatic move, something befitting Dick-Batman more than Bruce-Batman.
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It's a gimmicky thing. But I can't help but love when he was using elements in the environment to make the sound effects
All star superman has the bit with the prison riot, where a Clark Kent interviewing Lex keeps stepping in to save him from the riot when Lex looks away. It’s easily my favourite superman story.
One of my favorite bits throughout the series is the way Clark Kent surreptitiously prevents disasters through small, unseen gestures. Like when he "bumblingly" bumps into someone which makes them drop their bags (and prevents them from stepping off a curb and into the path of a truck running a red light), or how he lowers his glasses and vision-zaps something dangerous (loose wiring?) away from hitting Lex when Lex has his back turned.
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I kinda think Frank Quitely draws my definitive Clark Kent.
He's one of very few artists who make me believe that people wouldn't immediately figure Clark/Superman out.
Realizing lately that I don't really trust or respect basically any of the moderators here. So, good luck with life, friends! Hit me up on Twitter @DesertLeviathan
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I don’t think I’m enjoying anything about All-Star Superman, actually
I don’t like these versions of these characters, I’m kinda hating the stories these issues tell (Lois can be Superman for a day! She just sorta walks around watching things happen for it!), and I’m not engaged by the overarching story
I don’t think I’m enjoying anything about All-Star Superman, actually
I don’t like these versions of these characters, I’m kinda hating the stories these issues tell (Lois can be Superman for a day! She just sorta walks around watching things happen for it!), and I’m not engaging by the overarching story
I'm really sorry that we have to fight now
No fear, no mercy, no remorse, accept the past as oblivion and your own destruction as inevitable and lay waste to your foe
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spider-were, spider-were, transforms into a spider, on the night of the full moon, spins a web, any size, catches victims, just like flies, look out, here comes the spider-were
spider-were, spider-were, transforms into a spider, on the night of the full moon, spins a web, any size, catches victims, just like flies, look out, here comes the spider-were
If we're following D&D monster naming conventions, a spider-were would be a spider that can transform into a human, not vice-versa.
spider-were, spider-were, transforms into a spider, on the night of the full moon, spins a web, any size, catches victims, just like flies, look out, here comes the spider-were
If we're following D&D monster naming conventions, a spider-were would be a spider that can transform into a human, not vice-versa.
What bugs me about the first page is that it doesn't flow well. It feels like it is "stop. start. stop. start. stop. start." Which for comics is bad imo. I love how comic panels flow into one another and tell a story but this page feels more like four discrete panels rather than a four panel story. It'd be alright if it were "bang. bang. bang. bang." but to me it feels like it's "bang... bang... bang... bang...". It feels slow even as it quickly gets the origin out of the way. I get that's a subjective thing, but it's 90% of why I hate the page. It feels wrong to me.
My other problem with it is that it only works if you already know the story. Which is fine, most comic readers do know it. But I think it defeats the point of the page, Grant Morrison is saying "hey, Superman's origin isn't complicated, you can do it in four panels". But there's a giant asterisk there because what he's really saying is you can do it in four panels... if the reader already knows the story. Which is cheating. A person who hasn't heard of Superman's origin would probably find the first page confusing or mysterious, which is the exact opposite of its intent*.
*I may be wrong on this, I am recalling stuff from the 2000s. But at the time there was discussion at DC about Superman's origin being too confusing and lengthy for new readers and the first page (so far as I understood it) was Grant thumbing his nose at these people. But I don't think he succeeded in delivering an origin that isn't confusing for a new reader.
I feel like if I showed someone who somehow had a working understanding of Superheroes but had never heard of Superman I could show them that page and they would get it. I wanna say that I could show someone with no understanding of Superheroes that panel and they would also get it but I'm less certain about that.
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Another pair of Tales from the Dark Multiverse one shots got revealed, Blackest Night and Infinite Crisis.
BN is from Tim Seely and Kyle Hotz and features Sinestro in Limbo with Dove, Lobo and Mister Miracle fighting an infinite Black Lantern horde.
Infinite Crisis
Well
Writer James Tynion IV (Justice League, Justice League Dark) and artists Aaron Lopresti (Wonder Woman) and Matt Ryan (Damage) team up with cover artist Lee Weeks for this dark turn on DC’s mega-event INFINITE CRISIS. The destruction of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, the rise of Alexander Luthor and Superboy-Prime, and the rebirth of the Multiverse all began with Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle. Kord saw it all coming and died with secrets that could have saved the world. But in the Dark Multiverse, Blue Beetle survives, and with the death of Maxwell Lord by his hand, Ted sets off events that irreversibly alter the lives of not only the Justice League, but also his best friend, Booster Gold. In trying to prevent a crisis, Blue Beetle becomes the crisis, and the Dark Multiverse will never be the same.
DC is really giving it to Blue Beetle fans huh
(I am totally fine with this one, its an Elseworlds and Tynion kicks ass)
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Sinestro isn't trapped in Limbo, he's "The Limbo Lantern" (he's both a Black Lantern and a White Lantern)
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While looking for that one, I also found these ones, which I think come from the same fight sequence:
I really love the sequence in the first scan that zooms in on Damian's eyes. In the second scan, I love the panels where Dick is flipping over the table - the soaring bat silhouette, the cape folding around his body and then unfurling when he lands. That feels like a more acrobatic move, something befitting Dick-Batman more than Bruce-Batman.
also when i finally read that bizarro issue after hearing it talked up for a year or so, i was mad at everyone
No fear, no mercy, no remorse, accept the past as oblivion and your own destruction as inevitable and lay waste to your foe
There is one better summation of a backstory:
Got Bit
Uncle Died
Fight Crime
poetic license!
*person's problem
My mistake I thought Gus was saying he hated it too.
it's his one defining trait
As much as you love Jonathan Hickman
says the guy with an infinity reading order chart tattoo
My other problem with it is that it only works if you already know the story. Which is fine, most comic readers do know it. But I think it defeats the point of the page, Grant Morrison is saying "hey, Superman's origin isn't complicated, you can do it in four panels". But there's a giant asterisk there because what he's really saying is you can do it in four panels... if the reader already knows the story. Which is cheating. A person who hasn't heard of Superman's origin would probably find the first page confusing or mysterious, which is the exact opposite of its intent*.
*I may be wrong on this, I am recalling stuff from the 2000s. But at the time there was discussion at DC about Superman's origin being too confusing and lengthy for new readers and the first page (so far as I understood it) was Grant thumbing his nose at these people. But I don't think he succeeded in delivering an origin that isn't confusing for a new reader.
Well yeah. Not like I could figure that shit out on my own
BN is from Tim Seely and Kyle Hotz and features Sinestro in Limbo with Dove, Lobo and Mister Miracle fighting an infinite Black Lantern horde.
Infinite Crisis
Well
DC is really giving it to Blue Beetle fans huh
(I am totally fine with this one, its an Elseworlds and Tynion kicks ass)
It's very dumb and I kinda like it